RA2 Hall of Fame

[infiniteinertia]

Is anyone doing the HOF for this year? Hasn't been updated in a year.

[Conraaa]

I don't really see much point, to be fair. The old guard (RPB, NWB, AC, ERupt, Trinity et al) will garner interest and any new ideas would be dismissed for not being around long enough or something. It would just be a repeat of every Hall of Fame before.

[Trovaner]

IMO, Conraaa hit the nail on the head with his comment.

However, speaking of contests that haven't taken place in over a year, I wouldn't mind seeing the GTM awards start up again.

[Badnik96]

IMO, Conraaa hit the nail on the head with his comment.

However, speaking of contests that haven't taken place in over a years, I wouldn't mind seeing the GTM awards start up again.

We had the GTM Awards for 2012, Craaig ran them.

[infiniteinertia]

Well it seems to me that there could be different ways of undergoing a productive HOF vote than the system previously used.....

[Conraaa]

I think a better system would be to have an annual "Bots Of The Year" vote. Where you vote for any bot made in the past year and any that garners 50% or more of the vote is inducted, with no limit on numbers and a few categories like Stock, DSL, DSL Realistic, Custom etc.
Like a hall of fame but not. Then we could also have an inaugural vote for robots made beforehand listed under "Classics" or something. So the older  bots are recognized but the new breed isn't forgotten either.

If the above post makes sense.

[ianh05]

I think we should have annual bot awards for the best bot in each category (as Conraaa said), like this:

Stock:

Best AW
Best BW
Best LW
Best MW
Best CW
Best HW
Best SHW
Best UHW
Best Replica
Best IRL Design

DSL:

Best AW
Best BW
Best LW
Best MW
Best CW
Best HW
Best SHW
Best UHW
Best Replica
Best IRL Design

Bot type awards:

Best Rammer
Best Poker
Best Popup
Best HS
Best VS
Best FS
Best Hammer
Best Drum
Best Side Hammer
Best Drill
Best Flipper
Best SnS
Best Juggler

I know this would be a lot to dig through but you could have nominations for each put forth by well-respected members.

[HurricaneAndrew]

I like Ian's idea. The seperate bot type section may be tricky due to the fact that it seems like there's been several new bot types pop up in DSL over the past year or so. Like we have FSNS, TRFBD, flail rammers, etc. Then there would have to be a category for hybrids too.

[infiniteinertia]

I have an idea kind of like Ian's, but personally I think a better idea.

Select builders will first nominate bots:

8 stock
-LW any
-MW any
-HW any
-LW forum builder
-MW forum builder
-MW forum builder
-Innovation
-Wild Card

6 DSL
-LW any
-MW any
-HW any
-IRL
-IRL
-Wild Card

.....and say the top 3 bots receiving the most votes earn nominations for the actual HOF vote....

from there the forum wide vote would take place